Amanda Bynes was arrested in New York City on a marijuana charge. / Star file photo

About 61 percent of the Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted to support allowing openly gay youths to participate in Scout activities, effective Jan. 1. However, the ban on gay Scout adults and leaders remains in place. In Indiana, members on both sides of the controversy told The Star's Eric Weddle their views are unchanged, but that they wouldn't turn their backs on the organization as a result of Thursday's ballot.

It was George who hit the three-pointer over the Miami Heat's LeBron James to send Game 1 of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals series into overtime, though the Pacers eventually lost 103-102. Mike Wells outlines the 4 things Indiana must do to even the series tonight when they face the Heat in Miami at 8:30 p.m. -- such as improve their free-throw shooting.

Poison is headlining the Carb Day Concert at 3:30 p.m. today at the infield north of the Hall of Fame Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Public gates opened at 8 a.m.; gate admission is $20, with 12 and younger free. Final practice is from 11 a.m.-noon. Then on Saturday, gates open again at 8 a.m. for public activities, with admission $10 and 12 and younger free.

• On Saturday, don’t miss the 500 Festival parade Downtown from noon to 1:30 p.m. Celebrities expected to be in the parade are actors Jim Nabors, Michael Peña and Windell Middlebrooks; U.S. gymnast Jordyn Weiber; U.S. Olympic gold medalist swimmer Tyler Clary; the British-American rock band Foreigner; rock guitarist Eddie Money; and Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee. (Florence Henderson, who was scheduled to attend, is recovering from a bout of pneumonia.) Find details at www.500festival.com. The parade will be telecast locally on WISH-TV (Channel 8).

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• Then on Sunday, it’s Indianapolis 500 Race Day! Gates open at 5:30 a.m. The 33-driver lineup from pole sitter Ed Carpenter to No. 33 Katherine Leggeis introduced at 11:30 a.m., and at noon, the 97th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing begins. Tickets start at $30; buy online at at www.ims.com/tickets, by calling the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700, or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area, or by visiting the ticket office at the IMS Administration Building at the corner of Georgetown Road and 16th Street between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. today.

The 500 Festival Memorial Service will be held today on Monument Circle from noon to 1 p.m. and feature a reading of the names of the Indiana servicemen and women killed in the past year. Other services will hark back to more distant battles; on Monday, a memorial for the Civil War dead will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Most government offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day.

Corey Rossman, who was was with Spierer in the hours before the IU student went missing in June 2011, told The Journal News that he and others have “done nothing wrong. If we’d done something wrong, we would have been arrested already. All they’re doing is hurting my career.” Charlene and Robert Spierer have criticized Rossman and the other “persons of interest,” accusing them of withholding information from police.

We’re No. 13! Blame Austin, Texas, not us: The Lone Star State’s Capitol leapfrogged Jacksonville, Fla., Indianapolis and San Francisco to become the nation’s 11th-largest city, according to new Census Bureau data released today showing population changes from 2010 to 2012. Robert Lang, a professor of urban affairs at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, said population is booming in urban areas because of their appeal to Millennials -- those born from about 1982 to 2001, too young to have seen the crisis of the 1960s and 1970s.

"I hit the brakes and we went off the bridge," says one survivor of the I-5 collapse, which happened around 7 p.m. local time on Thursday evening at the Skagit River. Officials were interviewing a commercial truck driver whose rig was believed to have struck the bridge.

The jury in Jodi Arias' trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a unanimous decision on whether the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend should be sentenced to life or death. The judge scheduled a retrial in the sensationalized case for July 18. As the jury filed out of the courtroom, one female juror looked at the victim’s family and mouthed, “Sorry.”

Police arrested the actress in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. TMZ reports Bynes shouted at police the now-famous Reese Witherspoon arrest line: "Don't you know who I am?!" Bynes rose to fame starring in Nickelodeon's "All That" and has also starred in several films, including 2010's "Easy A." This isn’t her first brush with the law; she was arrested last year in Los Angeles on suspicion of drunken driving after allegedly hitting a sheriff's patrol car.

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